Word: join
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rampaging Missouri River leaped cross-country to join the Mississippi six miles below St. Charles, Mo. The confluence of the two rivers is usually 28 miles below St. Charles. In the triangle thus created, 1,000 people were stranded...
...Remember that Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune has no less than one million circulation. . . . Moreover, there is the possibility that other influential news papers, such as the New York Daily News, and the Washington Times-Herald, also may join the colonel's annexation campaign. . . . They will have tremendous influence over the reading public...
...resistance. On Temnac Bay, beyond Murder Point, a unit led by Captain Robert Goodfellow surprised a Jap gun position. Before the guns could be manned every defender was killed. Not one offered to surrender. Another unit landing at Blind Cove fought across a ridge, waist-deep in snow, to join a main assault column. The Jap was tricky. Routed from one foxhole, he would escape by tunnel to another. But his tricks did him little good. U.S. officials had said they would not "send a boy to do a man's job." The 3,000 to 3,500 Japs...
...British Foreign Office and the American State Department adopt the latter ideals, the British and American forces of occupation in Italy, while preventing Communist coups do main, will join hands with the Fascists against the democratic groups...
...Aged (77) Marshal Emilio De Bono, a bumbler who was the first Army general to join Mussolini's "March on Rome." He was head of Government police when Italy's socialist martyr, Giacomo Matteotti, was murdered just 19 years...